Killer network gaming card!

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I'd rather have a turbo charged, overclocked, pci parallel port card for my new printer.
 
I went over this card elsewhere in detail.
64MB buffer? No benefit.
IOP321? No benefit.
$40 Intel EtherExpress/Pro 1000? Same benefit. (Not their fault you have a pile of shit from Marvell or Realtrash.)

Sink or swim on features.
 
Just put Fatal1ty on the box, charge $100 for it, and everyone will buy it.
 
00ber_m00 said:
I'd rather have a turbo charged, overclocked, pci parallel port card for my new printer.
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Then we can have competitions of how fast our printers print, I already have 150 lps (letters per second). :)
 
Like has been said before, it's crap, it's a crap idea, there will be no noticable benifit from this card. It's a complete waste of money. Yet people who know nothing *will* buy it.
 
LOL, that thing has a heatsink on it. A network card with a heatsink...

From it's feature list:

"MaxFps technology offloads your network processng to Killer, which frees your CPU to focus on what you need it - THE GAME!!!"

...and you too can get a .1267 FPS increase.
 
PWMK2 said:
LOL, that thing has a heatsink on it. A network card with a heatsink...

From it's feature list:

"MaxFps technology offloads your network processng to Killer, which frees your CPU to focus on what you need it - THE GAME!!!"

...and you too can get a .1267 FPS increase.
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Yea really. The thing is I remember back in the day of dial up gaming you always wanted a hardware modem and not a software modem because back like 8 or 9 years ago it mattered. I would really think this would do next to nothing.
 
Actually, this is a real product.
The picture shown is actually a prototype which looks to be based on an IOP321 Design Reference board.
It's still vulnerable to the fact that most folks aren't willing to connect worms and viruses directly to their gaming machine, and has to pass through crap "routers."
And right now, I'm personally estimating the pricetag at about $200-250. IOP321 based cards are not cheap to build.
 
Back in the day when we prefered hardware modems over winmodems, it was because we didn't have the cpu cycles to spare.. Not to mention the fact that a winmodem would drop your connection in a heartbeat if it didn't get all the cpu time it wanted..

I doubt you would see any benefit at all from that particular addin nic compared to onboard in gaming.. Now, a pci-x nic meant for use in the server environs might give you better performance, but I still think you would not be able to tell the difference in gaming, unless that comp was being used as a server..
 
I am all for dedicated hardware NICs vs. the crap chips that end up in most integrated solutions, but this is just silly.
 
Oh god, what have they done.... I rather just have a card with jumbo packets...
 
Wow...I'm dumbfounded. It's missing the Fatal1ty branding and the price hike that comes with that bullshit.
 
PWMK2 said:
LOL, that thing has a heatsink on it. A network card with a heatsink..
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I'm gonna water cool mine, once i save my allowance up to afford it. Me Pwns J00!11
 
AreEss said:
It's still vulnerable to the fact that most folks aren't willing to connect worms and viruses directly to their gaming machine, and has to pass through crap "routers."
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Frak, does this mean my plan to buy four and hook them up to all four ports on my router is doomed from the start? I was looking forward to running my network cards in something 1337 like Quad SLi and watching my ping become negative.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Frak, does this mean my plan to buy four and hook them up to all four ports on my router is doomed from the start? I was looking forward to running my network cards in something 1337 like Quad SLi and watching my ping become negative.
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well, its a mixed bag right now. You can connect it a sli fashion but only if you have a 10 mbs hub. Switches and hubs over 10 mbs aren't supported yet. The GTX version due out by Christmas (hope they don't push it back) will add support for switches at 10 mbs and the BFG edition will feature 10\100\1000 switch sli ability by 2008.

Negative pings will allow me to rape and pillage... Can't wait to use this for my Atari 2600's online gaming needs... bitchin!
 
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